Connecticut western news., 1887-05-25
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD
 IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns. Mrs. Lottie Whitman, leading society lady of Oskaloosa, Iowa, has committed sui- eide because she feared she would be afflicted with consumption.
 The Philadelphia T. M. c. A. has paid half of the S20O, GOO mortgage on its building by subscriptions.
 During fight among the deck hands on the steamboat John s. Hopkins on the Ohio river, near Paducah, Ky, one man was stabbed to delth, another was killed with club and a, third stamped upon un'il he was nearly dead. The passengers experienced night of terr r. A block of buildings were burned at Hills boro, Tex. Loss, S12O, ,0Oo; insurance, S93, 900. T. T. Coyle, editorof the South,cest Chron- icle, Catholic paper, published at San An tonic, Tex, created sensation by going to the Alamo with sledge hammer and smash ing to pieces statuette of St. Theresa, which had stood there for ten years. Masonic em- blem on the breast of the image gave offence to the editor, who is devout Catholic
 An old miner has discovered thin vein of silver bearing quartz near Camargo, H., and has leased nine acres of land upon which to continue operations.
 The Governor State officials and many citizens of Texas have petltloned President Cleveland to appoint Chief Justice Asa H. Willis as successor of the late Associate Justice Woods
 While ploughing on Smithland Island in the Ohio River John Reachell was killed by lightning which came from clear sky. His two companions and their teams of mules were knocked senseless, but recovered.
 The Pennsylvania Legislature defeated the bill prohibiting the sale of liquor on Memorial Day.
 -Littleton Payne, who recently died near Klej Grange, Md, at the age of 70, was curiously constructed man. He had no eye brows, eyelashes, toe nails or finger nails, and all the teeth he ever had were two, and these he had at his birth.
 -Andreas Olsen, the Highmore, Dak., wife murderer, has hanged himself in his cell.
 Mayor Roche, of Chicago, has declared war on the dogs.
 Worcester County, Mass, is being devas- tatcd by forest fires.
 Melvin 4. Gould, ex-tax collector of Hull, Mass, has been missing for a week and is said to be Sl 900 behind in his accounts. He is supposed to be in Canada.
 A. T. Soule, of Rochester, N. Y., who built at . Is own expense canal nine miles long for irrigating purposes in Kansas, at all expense of S1 .00U GOO, has announced his intention of extending it so that 100000 acres of land will always yield a full crop.
 Pretty Maggie McCann, aged 20, is ill jail at Clcarticld, Pa., charged with murdering her lover, Jacob Boyer.
 The Hon. P. c. Phister, member of Congress from 1878 to 1882, died at his home in Maysville, Ky. He was 65 years old.
 Two militia companies left San Antonio, Washington. They were accompanied by 8 party of 100 ladies and gentlemen.
 The trial of the persons accused of being Col. Hamilton's accessories in the killing of Editor Gambrell, at Jackson, Miss, is in pro- Sress. Hamilton is recovering from his wounds.
 While quarrelling over some unknown matter, Charles Peterson, of Flint, Mich., grabbed an axe and struck his brother James in the neck, nearly beheading him. Only the murderer's wife witnessed the deed. The Cir cumstanccs indicate cold-blooded premedita- tion.
 The American ship Charles H. Marshall, which cleared London Dec. 5 for Philadelphia or New York, has been given up for lost with her crew of twenty-three men. She was com manded by Captain Hutchinson, of Syracuse, N. Y., who leaves widow and several chil dren.
 Resolutions denouncing the Coercion act and sympathizing with Gladstone and Parnell were adopted by Denver mass meeting at which over 5000 people were present.
 Medium, alias tKid" Kennedy, the notor. ious Ravenna desperado, is in custody at Uniontown, Pa. The corner stone of first building of the Leland Stanford Junior University has been laid at Palo Alto, Cal.
 Mrs. Beverly Jones was fatally stabbed by Edmund Gordon during a dispute at the for mer's house in South Boston, Both are col ored.
 M. B. Forbes, prominent business man | of Clean, N. Y., and president Of the Clear | Street Railroad Company, dropped dead at his residence of heart disease. <, The skeleton of a man was found on the banks of the river near Caledonia, Minn. IT some old clothes in @ hut near by S5, GOO ill | greenbacks and coin was found. The skeleton | is supposed to be that of one of the robbers who infested this region some time ago. A big strike has occurred among the Bos ton brewers.
 Jacob Keller, treasurer of Green town ship, Woodford county, H., has skippe1. Ht was shor, $1 500.
 Blair Mock, who killed Harry vandeven der, at Huntington, Ind, has been convicted of manslaughter, and gets fifteen years lmpri | sonment.
 An unfortunate man in Chattanooga kille, himself by drinking croton oil to alleviat pain.
 Ramon Rubiera, who was expelled iron Tampa, has received letter from the Unitet States District Attorney of Southern Florid which leads him to hope that he may now re 
 prisonment.
 Mrs. Catherine Rood, of Essex Junction Vt., died at that place aged 103 years and months. She was one of the oldest persons il the State and the oldest member of the Meth odist Church in Vermont, having become member of that denomination over 70 year ago.
 Alex Whiddin, Jr., & wellknown woo broker of Philadelphia, was discovered b some boys lying in field, dead from sui cidal revolver bullet
 Four hundred Baltimore brewers are o strike for 15 per cent. increase in wages.
 At Willis Texas, citizens shot two colore prisoners who, chained together, were bein taken to jail for shooting white man.
 Marlborough, who killed the son of Rober Laird Collier, has been found guilty of mur der in the first degree at Emporia, Kan.
 s. R. Galloway has resigned his place a Second Vice President and General Manage of the Union Pacific Railroad. I. J. Potte has been chosen First Vice President of tn road.
 The unexpected verdict of guilty in tn oil conspiracy case at Buffalo, N. Y., wa brought in.
 Seven hundred coal handlers are on strik at Ashtabula, O.
 An extensive secret organization anon colored farm laborers and tenants is expecte to bring about strike June 1st in upper Sout Carolina.
 Services in memory of the late Dr. Hol land, of the Century magazine, were held a his old church in Springfield, Mass.
 ANTI-CoERCION AT LOWELL A Speech by Gen. Butler-.Praisc fo,
 Parnell and Gladstone.